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Nicole Krauss Reads “Shelter”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The New Beginning, the New Beginning

He would settle with his wife, giving her not just the 79th Street apartment, but the whole of New York City. His grown children could visit him here by the Mediterranean where they too would see him in a new light. He held the delicate piece in his palm, imagining it around Navas' neck. Life was choosing a path for Cohen, just as it had chosen a path for the man in a dark suit and ear locks.

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